Compiling all of the 1990 – 2011 African Head Charge reissues on CD with a 36 page booklet featuring an interview with master percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah.
A companion piece to the acclaimed Environmental Holes & Drastic Tracks, this picks up the story in 1990 with what many fans regard as the band’s masterpiece, Songs of Praise.
DISC1: SONGS OF PRAISE (1990)
Free Chant (Churchical Chant Of The Iyabinghi) / Orderliness, Godliness,
Discipline And Dignity / Hymn / Dervish Chant / Hold Some More / Healing Father
/ Healing Ceremony / Cattle Herders Chant / Ethiopian Praises / My God / Gospel
Train / Chant For The Spirits / God Is Great / Deer Spirit Song / Full Charge /
Fullness / Special Mix
DISC2: IN PURSUIT OF SHASHAMANE LAND (1993)
Heading to Glory / Pursuit / One Destination / No, Don't Follow Fashion / Animal
Law / Learning / Fever Pitch / Somebody Touch I / Fever Pitch (Raw Cut) /
Pursuit (underpulse motion DJ edit) / No Don't Follow Fashion / On The Off Beat
/ Rastaman / Run Come See Me / Kumasee / Mama Shante Garden
DISC3: VISION OF A PSYCHEDELIC AFRICA (2005)
The Big Country / Surfari / Positive Thoughts & Mind / Unplanned / Treatment
For A Septic Horn / Drumming Is A Language / Mr. Whippy Does Djibouti / Run
Come See / Ran Came Saw / Blessed Works / Work Blessed / More Fluid / Who Are
You? / Ready You Ready / Ready You Ready Part 2 / What Is The Plan?* / What Is
The Plan? (Version)* *(with Mutabaruka)
DISC4: VOODOO OF THE GODSENT (2011)
In “I” Head / The Best Way / Take Heed… And Smoke Up Your Collyweed /
Stoned Age Man / African Bredda / Mysterious Happenings / This And That And The
Other / Undulating / Timpanya / Badman Plan / Dobbyn Joins The Head Charge / God
Willing / Fear Of A Man God
DISC5: CHURCHICAL CHANT OF THE IYABINGHI
Unreleased version mixes from Songs Of Praise and In Pursuit Of Shashamane
Land:
Peace and Happiness / Jungle Law / Learned / One Love, One Heart (Version) /
Pitched Fever / Dervish Dub / Dub Some More / Disciplined and Dignified /
Healing Father's Dub / Dub for the Spirits